Hey there! Since my last AU didn't go so well...heh...I decided to make a new one! :D YAAAAY! This one is about mermaids and mermen and fishes and stuffs like that. TwT I thought this one through more, so I'm hoping that it'll be better than the last one. x3 Remember to review, follow, or favourite for a SHOUT-OUT! :3


Maka swam through the deep ocean as she tried to make out the faraway signs that were supposed to tell her where exactly she was. Since she wasn't allowed to leave the Atlantic Ocean, she had to make sure that she was still within the boundaries of which her father allowed her to be in. Being the mermaid princess she was, it was frowned upon for Maka to be swimming around, trying to find adventures like she loved to do. However, she refused to give up that life and decided to sway around for her own pleasure as she waved to citizens of the Atlantic as they swam by. Her father was the incredibly strict king of the Atlantic Sea, ruling over its inhabitants and refusing to let them leave without the proper payment. Maka found this to be ridiculous, but, you know, no one shall question the king's greatness.

Maka swam faster to read the signs. The seaweed danced in the water, splashes of sunlight hitting them. Even though it was dangerous to be swimming near the surface of the water, Maka loved to. She thought that the feeling of air on her face was amazing, and she loved breathing it even more than water. Maka dove down deeper and looked around at the beautiful underwater scenery to get away from her troubling thoughts of being captured by pirates. A school of fish swam by, causing her to stop and wait for them to make their leave. There were pink coral reefs that were in two straight lines leading up to a mall and making it seem like there was a road that led to it.

She squinted and read aloud, "Now entering private territory." Sighing, Maka turned around and started heading the opposite way. She had to be home soon anyways; she had to go watch all her butlers and such set up for her so-called "amazingly fun-tastic" birthday party, which she didn't care about at all whatsoever. All she wanted for her birthday was a chance to get her hands on one of those books that she'd seen waterlogged before. You can't read a wet book; it just doesn't work that way.

Maka pumped her tail fin back and forth to gain speed. Her sisters Liz and Patty and Tsubaki would already be at home, enjoying the indoors and painting their fingernails and laughing while they chatted about something petty like boys. Maka cringed at the thought of it. She swam to the castle that was at the center of the Atlantic and approached the drawbridge guardian.

"Hello, Enzo," she said with a grin, "mind letting me in?" Enzo rolled his eyes at the annoying girl and pulled a lever. The drawbridge fell open and Maka swam through it, turning back to look at the guardian just before he was out of sight.

"Work on that attitude, bucko! You could sure use a tip, and you ain't gettin' one with that tone!" she called over her shoulder. She giggled, and then swam into the two huge doors that hid the large corridor. She swam to a huge white door with yellow and pink designs on it, along with a few seashells. She knocked on the door and waited.

It swung open after a moment and Spirit, the Atlantic King, stepped through. His wild red locks spread out behind him and covered parts of his forehead as it slowly fell over his shoulders again. His face looked lazy and elated at the same time. Maka figured he had been drinking when she got that call from him not too long ago and he slurred the whole time. "Maka! Deary! You're home!" he tried to gather her in a hug, but she backed away before he could stumble and possibly fall on top of her.

"You wanted me home?" she said in a hostile tone, giving the king the evil eye. While most people of the Atlantic feared King Albarn, Maka was definitely not scared to show him her sass. Spirit clutched his face with his hand and let out a low rumble of a laugh. Leaning against his golden trident, he looked at her and said, "Yes, I jus' wan'ed to see you 'cause I love you so much, deary! Give yo' papa a hug, will ye?" Maka rolled her eyes, turned, and swam over to Liz's room. There was NO WAY that she was going to "give her papa a hug." Knocking on Liz's door and waiting, she chewed at the stubs that she had for fingernails.

The door opened and Liz lowered her eyelids that had pink eyeshadow coating them. "May I help you?" Maka looked out the window of the room and sighed.

"Do you think...that tomorrow we could..." Maka cleared her throat, "...go for a swim around the Atlantic? You know how I am about parties. I don't like the loudness and craziness. Please, could you come?" Liz groaned like Maka was her annoying little sister.

Although Maka was Spirit's only daughter, Spirit had made Liz, Patty, and Tsubaki princesses of the deep as well because they seem fitted for being princesses and didn't have alive parents. Tsubaki was found one morning near a sea anemone and taken in because of how beautiful she was. Spirit thought that she looked beautiful enough to be a princess, and so she was. It was the same story with Liz and Patty. They were all adopted by the king and competing to be queen some day. (Spirit didn't have a wife at the moment, so when he died, one of the princesses would become ultimate ruler.)

"Sure, I'll come," Liz said, eying her pink fingernails and blowing on them. "But only if I don't have to get you a present." Truthfully, Liz was overjoyed with the opportunity to get out of that castle. But was she going to admit that and have to get Maka a birthday gift? Hell no!

Maka grinned and said, "Deal! Get Patty to come too!" Patty's head appeared from above the doorway.

"Come where?!" she asked in that excited, puppy-dog voice of hers. Maka chuckled and left Liz to explain to her.

She made her way down the hall more and stopped just before Tsubaki's door. She knocked and the door opened immediately. "Yes?" Tsubaki said, only showing her head in the crack of the door. Maka tilted her head.

"Tsubaki?" she asked.

"Yes, Maka?" she replied with that soft voice of hers.

"Can I see your whole body?" Maka asked, slightly confused. Tsubaki open the door completely, and Maka saw a white top on her with a yellow trident pattern on it.

"W-What do you think...?" Tsubaki asked, turning slightly and blushing. Maka nodded to her.

"Looks good," she said. "Can you come for a swim tomorrow afternoon? Liz and Patty are coming."

"Oh, that's a relief. I thought it might've been too...too showy. And sure, I'll go for a swim with you," she replied, smiling. Maka nodded, and then headed back to her room.

Her room was kind of incredibly huge, and it was octagon-shaped, like all the rooms in their palace were. There were golden curtains that were held to the side by red ribbons, swaying in the water a bit. The tiles of her room were gold and red as well; they had little octagon patterns on them. Her bed looked very rococo, and it was white with golden lace and frills and trident-shaped patterns on it. It had a headboard that went all the way to the ceiling, gold and red curtains falling down to the floor from it. There was also a red desk in the corner of the room that had many slabs of rock on it with small letters printed on them. The last things in her room were two very large shelves. They took up most of the room and contained slabs of rock with letters and stories written on them. (Maka loved to read almost as much as she loved to adventure.)

She flopped down onto her bed as she stared at the ceiling. Since Maka didn't have any pets like a normal adolescent girl would, she sometimes just stared at her ceiling and thought instead of talking to a pet seahorse or something. She thought about what would happen the next day. Maka planned on just spending time with her sisters; something that she usually didn't do. She thought about what they could possibly talk about.

Nothing in particular came to mind.

Maka paced in a straight line in her room, deep in thought. Suddenly, she gasped and flinched as she heard a large crash, and then an, "Oops! My bad, sis!" Maka figured Patty probably dropped a vase or something. She swam out of her room and to the scene of the crime: Liz's room. There it was: a shattered vase spread across the bedroom floor. The little shards of glass were just about everywhere, and a very anxious-looking Patty was perched on Liz's bed, trying to avoid stepping on any glass. Maka looked at the floor of shards and then back at Liz. Liz was red in the face and desperately trying to sweep up the mess. Spirit hadn't come in the room, so they definitely weren't in any trouble.

"I'll just...leave it to you two to clean this up," Maka said, and turned around to walk back to her golden room. Liz sighed and continued to clean while Patty giggled at random things outside her window.

Maka rested on her bed again and soon fell asleep, hoping that the next day's birthday party wouldn't be as treacherous as she thought it would.

Then again, you never know what surprises await...


Okay, I hope you guys liked it! I TRIED REALLY HARD ON IT! Review, follow, or favourite for a shout-out! :3 Also, a big thank-you to xDooms Madnessx for helping me with the story! x3